The leisure hierarchy and Intra-urban spatial patterns. Point 7 of the sports, leisure and tourism option on paper 2.

1. 7. Leisure at the local scale:
Sport and Recreation
Aim: To understand the leisure hierarchy
and apply it on a transect of Toulouse.

2. Settlement Hierarchy

3. Facilities & Activities Offered.
FacilitiesFacilities Activities offeredActivities offered
National sports centre Stadia for national sports, e.g. Stade de
France, Wembley, Lansdown Road.
Community Hall or Community
Open space
Badminton. Keep Fit. Yoga. Football.
Basketball. Salle de fete. Petanque.
As above plus, Tennis courts,
sports hall, swimming pool
As above plus: tennis; netball; gym;
hockey;
Professional stadia Football; rugby; basketball; hockey; ice
hockey; horse racing; dog racing
Open areas Parks and gardens for recreation.
Children's play areas.

4. Using your copy of the settlement
hierarchy …
• Annotate onto it where you would find the
facilities set out in the table and activities
offered.
• Complete a short piece of writing to
explain the relationship between urban
settlement size and the recreational and
sports facilities provision (300 words)
• Include details on the frequency, size,
range and catchment area.

5. Intra Urban Spatial Patterns

7. Over to you …
Examine the distribution and location of recreational
and sports facilities in the transect area from Toulouse CBD to
Pibrac (rural urban fringe).
• Create an annotated map (10) with details of
facilities and locations spatially represented.
• Then completed a piece of commentary (10) for
the map that covers the following points:
1. Relate any patterns that you reveal to:
2. The patterns of accessibility
3. Land values €€
4. Physical characteristics
5. Socio economic conditions